Rondele
Ex Member
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To me, new age means information or teachings that are beyond traditional sources. Just as one example, the Bible was the source of teaching for Christians and Jews for many centuries.
We all date things based on our own experiences, but I remember the fuss when Bridey Murphy was hypnotized and reported that she had led many lives prior to her current one. Reincarnation became very popular in the media and a big subject of conversation.
Then, at some later point, channeling became in vogue. Ruth Montgomery had her "guides" who gave her information via automatic writing. Among other things they assured her that there would be radical upheavals prior to the year 2000. The earth, they said, would shift on its axis, causing earthquakes and floods and millions of deaths. Very few places would be safe. Western Canada was one such place. People actually relocated to Saskatchewan.
And around the same timeframe came other channeled material, including Seth, ACIM and a host of others.
And the bandwagon caught on. I imagine there are tons of channeled entities right now saying all sorts of things.
But new age thought is not just limited to religion or spirituality. Its influence is in medicine, food, exercise.....you name it. Some of it is good, some of it is just plain bogus.
Unfortunately, we now live in a culture that is seriously lacking in something that used to be valued and used to be taught: discernment.
We seem to have lost the ability to discern. We gobble up whatever the latest guru or medium says. If a guy says he's conversing with God, we don't critically examine what he says. We jump on the bandwagon with gusto. We drink the kool aid willingly.
Conversations with God is a book riddled with inconsistencies and outright contradictions. It's not a surprise that Walsch has been exposed. It was just a matter of time.
True learning is hard. Takes time. Takes effort. These days, that's too much trouble. Far easier to listen to some disembodied entity who tells us to chill out and not to worry, there's no such thing as sin.
Seductive messages like that always attract the gullible part of the population. This part, by the way, is expanding exponentially. Not a good omen.
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